In practice, national governments implement pro-growth economic policies, and,if they wish to receive international support,have to open up their public administrative practices. This essentially neoliberal economic perspective resonates in the Asia-Pacific region where,in many cases,countries have proiortized economic over social or political development. Indeed,the region has been described as suffused with a remarkable "econophoria",wherein all governance problems,whether domestic or international,are seen as surmountable through development and growth-an outlook which has emerged alongside the dynamic economic success stories of most regional states.